Bhongaon, India
Sankissa
Sankissa is an ancient city in India renown for the descent of Gautama Buddha from the Tushita heavens where he taught his mother before landing at Sankissa. Considered among the eight great pilgrimage sites, it was thirty leagues from Sravasti. Around 300 years after the Gautama Buddha's Mahaparinirvana, king Ashoka visited and built a Pillar of Ashoka of which the elephant capital survives.
- City
- Bhongaon
- Country
- India
- Category
- Historic
- Suggested visit
- About 90 minutes
Background: Wikipedia